New Heights Charter

New Heights Charter is a primary school of close-knit scale in Los Angeles, California, part of New Heights Charter District, caters to 394 students in grades K through 8.

New Heights Charter sits inside New Heights Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, New Heights Charter records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting New Heights Charter tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. New Heights Charter is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Forty-Second Street Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, New Heights Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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